My wife has a problem at airports related to her name. When we married, she changed her name from Ann Betty Smith to Ann Smith Jones. That is, first name Ann, middle name Smith, last name Jones. Some federal agency or another entered her name into their database as first name Ann, no middle name, last name “Smith Jones”.

Now her drivers license is “Ann” “Smith” “Jones”, but we signed up with TSA Precheck and it expects her name to be “Ann” “Smith Jones”. Every time we travel, someone at the airport has to reconcile it.

We’re currently in the middle of spending $600 to legally change her name from Ann Smith Jones to Ann Smith Jones. That’s what the ad we had to run in the newspaper says.